The best affordable Citizen? I think it might be - My First Impressions NJ0100
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- I have finally found a Citizen that I really want to own and I think it may well be one of the best affordable automatic watches I have experienced. Or at least one of my favorites.
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One of the best affordable automatic watches I have experienced. I love it.
Congrats! Im happy to hear that🙂
The first one i received was almost 30 years ago from my oldest brother as a birthday present. I still have it..
Great dial, less is often more. Have a good rest of this Sunday. Regards from Germany 🤗
I am really enjoying this one. A very easy every day watch.
I bought the blue dial like a month ago, found it cheap on Amazon UK, I did have to regulate it amd got it to -5 a day. I’m not a fan of the miyota movements but wanted a automatic citizen, it’s a nice watch for the money.
I’m really impressed by it. Mostly because of the looks.
Looks great. Really good pick up at that price. Thanks!
I am really impressed. It has its negatives. But I really like it
This felt comprehensive, like a review video and I only realized it was a first impressions when you mentioned it at the end! That looks like a nice watch. How's the lume?
Yes. First impressions straight out of the box.
Once I’ve had about 4-6 weeks with it on wrist I’ll get the full review out.
Lume is good. I’ll show that in the full review as well.
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A great overview of this watch James. I had the NJ0100-11E which comes with an ok leather strap.
I’ve heard the straps are ok.
The watch looks sharp and classic. Like the bold black dial, nice one though James
It is a great looking watch
Glad that you love it mate, the squeaky bracelet hand me in tears 😂😂. I’ve been having a similar experience with Citizen, I would love to own one but am yet to find anything that appeals to me on any level. I want to like them and have tried on several at jewellery stores but I get nothing no feelings at all. Some of their chronographs look nice but loose me when I have them in hand. I’ll keep looking but I’m not going to hold my breath 🤙
It is part of the journey. I had the same issue with Bulova until I found a few. Still having that issue with Tissot.
@@WATCHingJames I’m also struggling with bulova, apart from the Luna pilot and the American clipper there is nothing there that interests me, have you seen the new tissot Chemin des tourelles? Comes in 39mm and 42mm. The 39 will be my next purchase, my local jewellery store will do 10-20% off depending on who’s working at the time 😜
That does look nice. The one that’s grabbed my attention is the T127.407.16.031.01
I have it for a year now in blue, i paid about 200 aud
I think it is bang for buck. Amazingly beautiful
One of the best value watches I’ve come across
I just bought one James! It was on special with a Citizen shop here in Istanbul, US$195 equivalent. My first Citizen too.
Im sure you will love it. I’m wearing mine everyday and love it.
It’s not perfect. But I just love it.
I bought my first automatic citizen, and it's great I have to get another one eventually
They are great watches. This one suits me perfectly
Squeaking comes from collars rubbing on springbars and endlinks. I've put a tiny drop of knife oil on each collar and there's no more squaking.
Thank you. That’s really helpful.
Just discovered your channel today while looking for seiko baby tuna save the ocean series review.
I am planning on to buy it! Do you recommend it?
Thanks
I have not owned the baby tuna but have tried it on.
Like all the prospex seikos it is really nice. Especially the save the ocean variations (great dials)
Just shop around to get the best price.
I put Citizen on my wish list. But I will order a leather bracelet with it. Good review James btw.
Thanks Tony. Worth being patient and finding one at the right price.
I’ve had mine on my Bulova leather strap for a bit and it looked great.
Great looking watch for sure as are many citizens but I find most of their offerings are on the larger side - well for the ones I like at least.
They certainly are. I like lots of them. But this one I had to buy.
It is quite the looker. That case shape is gorgeous. Very Japanese in style.
I’m really impressed by it. For a affordable watch it really has grabbed my attention
Thank you James, i must say there are so many citizens you could have had. Yes miyota is a big thing but eco drive is the best solar ever!
I own 2, i will get more.. Highly recommended.. 🙂
I really like them. But finding the right ones for me have been harder than I expected.
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@@WATCHingJames the pleasure is mine. There are some unique and interesting peices in the jdm market, have a look..
Keep up the good work, i love the channel.. 🙂
Oh I have been looking. Hahaha.
Thank you.
Just bought this one on eBay for $119. I couldn’t pass it up. Hopefully it’s as nice as I believe it will be. I feel like, at that price point, I’m definitely going to be happy with it.
That is a fantastic price.
It is still one of my favourite affordable watches I’ve experienced
I have a Citizen Eco Drive diver, i did not like the supplied silicone band with expandable ribbing at all, so i put it on a Nato strap, quite light for its size, little bit of a funky look with the cathedral hands, but for those lovers of lume "WOW", it is exceptional.It is a great "grab and go" watch, keeps perfect time and its always ready to go when you are. Batterly life when supported with the eco drive feature is 5 years but i do not know of anyone who has got less than 10 yrs, with many reporting a astonishing life of 20 years.Seems to be a well made,well put together watch, not my fave, but strangely enough,if i had to keep just one of my watches it would be my choice, just because it looks ok, fits well, and is so low maintinance.
That’s great. They make some amazing watches.
It definitely doesn’t look bad I can see why you like it! I’m interested in the titanium eco-drive GADA model (can’t remember the price) think it comes in at £250ish. May just drop some change on it next month!
I can recommend Casio Lineage LCW-M100TSE. Titanium, sapphire, multiband, solar.
They make some solid watches. Definitely good value too.
Is that the one Bens watch club likes? It looks great
@@WATCHingJames That's the one. I have bought it after his recommendation.
It does look good
My first "proper" watch was a Citizen automatic only that my mum bought me for my birthday in 1992 - £29 from Argos in the UK; it's a beat-up but it still works fine.
In 2020 I picked up an Eco-Drive mecaquartz chronograph here in Moscow - cost a lot more than it would in the West, but fantastic anyway. Still, I can't wait to compare it with the Tactical Frog from AliExpress when that arrives- I plan to kick off my UA-cam channel with a comparison video. By the way, thanks for your review of the Mysterious Code watch. I got one; it's bonkers but I love it. Cheers 🍻!
Thanks David. This one is particularly good. Good luck with your new channel.
@@WATCHingJames The pressed clasp on the Eco-Drive is especially good, certainly in comparison with my Vostoks! 🤣
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Fairly nice looking watch. The not so desirable Miyota 8 thousand series movement and folded links, is a big downer for me. For that kind of money, I'll keep looking. Good informative review, thanks James.
It is a bit of a shame. But I am really enjoying it.
I have a NJ0100-71L (the one with blue teaked dial), and the bracelet looks and feels surprisingly good for what it is. I actually prefer it to solid link bracelets from AliExpress, same for the Citizen pressed clasp vs. AliExpress milled clasps. Comparing it to other affordable watches, I believe that it has some kind of coating as both clasp and bracelet have fewer scratches than my other watches.
I also own a few watches with "60" at twelve o'clock. Though I can't understand why? When it goes from 59 seconds, it goes to one minute. And not to 60 seconds! 😄 Should be "00" at twelve o'clock.
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That's a nice citizen watch for the price.
I am really enjoying it.
..... yep the bracelet is awful .... that is why I bought the black dial version on the high quality brown leather strap that is probably worth $100 on its own ............. I also wear it on a black Xeric Horween leather strap that looks great ..... I have a 6 3/4 inch wrist and thought at 42mm this watch would be too big but it wears smaller than it would seem ....... an added bonus is that it doesn't have an annoying screw down crown ........ if I need something totally waterproof and tough enough to drive in nails with I just wear my original Ray Mears Promaster ............
I am really enjoying mine.
£105 on Amazon UK but they only have the silver dial. This must be a pretty old model if they are still using the non hacking 8 series.
The other colours do seem to be cheaper for some reason. I think they look ok. But this black with the white hands just looks amazing to me.
Holy crap balls that is the squeakiest watch that I have ever heard that’s crazy, and imo completely unacceptable for a watch that sells for 399 regular price, wow. The dial and case are wonderful and it looks quite sharp on the squeaker. Bracelet reminds me of the Seiko folded steel, less squeaks. Def a looker!
I now have to nickname this one squeaker. The perfect name.
I’m really enjoying it.
Re the squeaking bracelet, what if one VERY JUDICIOUSLY, probably with an artists brush, applied a little bit of light oil between the links, to the extent you could, on both sides? Then wipe off any excess carefully. Wear it for a few months, and repeat. Bet you'd quiet it down.
BTW, Seiko, at least, polishes their cases in the area between the lugs. And I mean BETWEEN THE LUGS. I like that bling which is very visible, e.g., on my Seiko turtle with its silicon strap that came on the watch. When you put a bracelet on a watch, you lose that bit of bling and get all the potential headaches that come with a bracelet. When I bought the Turtle in Dec. 2016, I bought three more of the wonderful silicon straps from the Seiko repair facility in NJ. Today, those straps go for 3X what I paid. All three are still put away in my home. The silicon strap lasts and lasts, at least the way I live. Huge improvement over the rubber straps that Seiko used to use, apparently cut from an old tire out back. Were I to buy this Citizen auto, I think I'd buy it on the leather. Not likely though, since one auto- the Turtle- is enough of a handfull to keep going. It DOES keep going if one has it off the wrist for maybe 12 hours.
I had a new 4R36 movement installed in the Turtle in June, 2023. Now running like new. Easy for the watchmaker to obtain since still widely used by Seiko. The original movement was acting up after six years, losing 10 min. in 3 three days. Regulating it did not cure it, so he recommended the new 4R36. Brand new 4R36 was half the price of a new Turtle. and now the watch loses 20 seconds a month, plenty good enough for me to drive to the bank, grocery store, Kaiser, WM and the Bay Area. I have two Casio atomics and so I can see the exact time.
Recall that the first Bulova Tuning Fork watch in ~1970 claimed accuracy of a minute a month. People could hardly believe it and it sold big. My Turtle is half that accurate and no electronics.
Citizen has done something great with this NJ0100. Imagine the skull sessions, drawings, prototypes they went through to get to this design! Months and months of it, but they got there! Since it does not have a screw down crown, I suppose I could own one and wind it every couple days. Alternate it with the Turtle. When a watch has a screw down, you don't want to be undoing all of that all of the time to wind it since you are putting wear on the screw down components when you do. Five times a year is plenty.
Harding again: Correction: my Turtle is now losing two minutes a month, half the accuracy of the Bulova Turning Fork watch of 1970.
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Thanks, to put price in euros !
Thanks for the positive feedback. I really appreciate it.
Diver.
More of a pilot this one.
Too bad you quote in Australian dollars. I mean, who actually uses Austalian money. Come to think of it, who actually lives there? Aside from a couple watch reviewers. And some F1 drivers who long since moved to Europe or America.
Hahahaha yes. That’s why I put the conversions on screen. That way I don’t need to list multiple currencies.
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If you check the video you can see the price in other currencies including USD, CAD, etc. And around 30 million people live in Australia. Kind of a silly question mate.
Thanks Brian 😁
Yes, it is sort of odd. Leave out the price in $US, the money used in the biggest market in the world.